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Apple A13 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A13 Bionic
Rank 2 - 54 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A13 Bionic
Rank 2 - 82 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

Apple A13 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz
1,336
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
8C / 8T · 2.84 GHz
724
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Apple A13 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz
3,429
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
8C / 8T · 2.84 GHz
2,808
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A13 Bionic
Apple A13
691
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
Qualcomm Adreno 680
1,843
AI performance (NPU)

AI performance (NPU)

Apple A13 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz
6.0 TOPS
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
8C / 8T · 2.84 GHz
3.0 TOPS

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Apple A13 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
FamilyApple A series (27)Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)
CPU groupApple A13 (1)Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx (2)
ArchitectureA13 (Lightning / Thunder)Kryo 495
Technology7 nm7 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletSmartphone / Tablet
Socket
PredecessorApple A12 Bionic
SuccessorApple A14 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen
Apple A13 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
CPU Cores / Threads6 / 68 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1: 2x Lightning
2.65 GHz
4x Kryo 495 Gold
2.84 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Thunder
1.80 GHz
4x Kryo 495 Silver
1.80 GHz
L2-Cache8.00 MB
L3-Cache2.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Apple A13 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
GPU nameApple A13Qualcomm Adreno 680
GPU frequency1.35 GHz0.25 - 0.59 GHz
CUs / Shader16 / 2568 / 768
Raytracing
Max. displays12
Max. GPU Memory4 GB4 GB
Technology7 nm7 nm
Release dateQ3/2019Q4/2018

NPU AI performance

Wischen
Apple A13 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
AI hardwareApple Neural EngineQualcomm AI engine
AI specifications8 Neural cores @ 6 TOPSHexagon 685 @ 3 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Apple A13 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
MemoryLPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory4 GB16 GB
Memory channels18
ECCNoNo
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen
Apple A13 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
TDP6 W7 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen
Apple A13 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
Chip designChipletChiplet
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOSAndroid, Windows 10 (ARM)
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release dateQ3/2019Q4/2018
Release price
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

Your rating

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Apple A13 Bionic
Apple A13 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
8C / 8T · 2.84 GHz

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